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Outdoors > Garden > How to Build a Wood Arbor for Garden or Yard

Learn how to construct a cedar garden arbor with built-in benches.

Review the plans for the canopy before proceeding. Note that each canopy beam incorporates several distinct design shapes when viewed from end to center. Each end has a scallop that matches the side beams and then a flat area where the canopy supports will rest on the side beams once installed. In the middle, there is one long arch. Using two-by-ten or two-by-twelve beams will allow room to cut a nicely curved arch--the wider the beam the greater the possible curve. We use two-by-tens, but once they are shaped, the face of the curved beam will be no more than 6-inches wide and will match the side beams we made earlier.

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